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Friday, November 13, 2009

Friday Find: Podcast of Recent Billy Collins Reading

Take some time this weekend to enjoy this podcast of a recent Billy Collins reading at the Center for Worker Education at The City University of New York. ("The Lanyard" never fails to get me!) And I appreciate here the many comments Collins offers about the practice of writing poetry.

I hope that you all have a great weekend. See you back here on Monday.

2 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Me, too, I love that poem. I was surprised to hear from somebody last summer that The Lanyard offended them. I thought it was funny and oh-so-true, having amassed my share of keychains and lumpy (useless) ashtrays.

Thanks for the comment, anonymous. Like you, I am surprised that anyone can find that poem offensive. I think it is a beautiful tribute to parenthood and to Billy Collins's mother, in particular. I wish I could write something that eloquent for my mother!

About Me

Erika Dreifus lives and writes in New York City. Her story collection, Quiet Americans, will be published in January 2011 by Last Light Studio Books. Erika is a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and an advisory board member forJ Journal: New Writing on Justice, and she wrote the section on "Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing" for the second edition of Tom Kealey's Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Erika's writing practice encompasses fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. For more about Erika's writing, please visit her website.

Erika is also the editor/publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter featuring advice, opportunities, and resources on the craft and business of writing for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.